January 30, 2011

Pillow Talk...

Remember this little patchwork project I told you about? As Carolina pointed out: It's a bit on the small side if it's a really cold night. She cracks me up. She is right, though. It would be a small quilt for a cold night unless you were a squirrel. But guess what? I'm not a squirrel and this is not a quilt for the Nutkin family. No, it's not a quilt at all. Instead, it's a patchwork pillow. See...

I discovered another bit o' magic when I put this pillow together...the invisible zipper foot. Bernina magic. There is no other way to describe it. You simply line up the zipper teeth in the groove on the foot, push the power pedal, sit back, and let the feed dogs and the foot do the work. Voila. A perfectly stitched zipper. Magical.

Pretty. At least you can rest your head upon your patchwork and get bombarded with creative ideas as you won't fit underneath it (unless you are one of those acrobatics that folds up like a Swiss army knife and can crawl into it, close the zip and disappear of course...). Love the small squares and the little bunny is adorable. Well done.

This is more like it, Cassie. I really like the way you stitched "out of " the ditch. It gives it such a finished, cool look - each square looks better done that way. I also like how you placed the fabrics with the bigger flowers. My eye enjoys traveling around the pillow between them and the red fabric with white dots, the blue areas give my eyes a place to rest. All in all I give you an A+ despite the fact that the squirrels outside your window are probably wondering what they ever did to you to deserve having their quilt turned into a pillow. Nice work. Carolina

I am absolutely loving the stitcher doodle on this cushion! So lovely! I have always admired your sewing, going years back when I blogged as Dancin' Puffin. Well, my Mum is coming to stay in a few weekends and we're going to get my old sewing machine out and she's going to show me the ropes! :) One day I might be able to show what I've been up to through my new blog :) Here's hoping. In the meantime I'll keep admiring your fabulous things :) x

I love this one, especially the embroidery! Where is that from? I love that you did it on aqua too. So adorable. Hey, thanks for the Bernina tip too. I have a Bernina and have never used the magical zipper foot. What number is it???